 �What is Ideological Capture and How Do We Measure It?: Using Antitrust Reform to Understand Expert-Public Cleavages�

Perspectives on Politics

Nicholas Short, Sophie Hill, and Jacob R. Brown

 
The replication file for this project contains two files in addition to this README file.


The first is `replication-file.Rmd`. This Rmarkdown document contains the computer code for generating all figures and tables.

The second is `datasets.RData`. This RData file contains six data sets:

1. importance_data � data from pilot 1 on issue importance
2. distributional_data � data from pilot 3 on whether mergers help or hurt certain groups
3. candidate_choice_data � data from pilot 3 on respondent issue positions and candidate selections
4. consistency_data � data from the subset of respondents who completed pilot 2 and pilot 3 on main values and preferences 
5. combined_survey_data � the main survey data (both public and lawyer samples) discussed in the paper, in wide format, excluding the results of the conjoint experiment; each row contains one observation for each respondent
6. combined_survey_conjoint � the main survey data (both public and lawyer samples) discussed in the paper, in long format, containing the results of the conjoint experiment and respondent party identification; there are multiple rows per respondent

These files replicate the following figures and tables:

Figures 1-6 and Table 1 in the manuscript
Figures A.1-A.2 and Tables A.1-A.12 in the appendix
